Poorly Executed

So, you might wonder, what did I think of the execution of Saddam Hussein? Well, to quote Howard Dean regarding Saddam's capture, it doesn't make us safer. And the execution wasn't so much an execution as it was a lynching. It was so botched and mismanaged, the only thing about it that wasn't screwed up was the hanging itself. And while the U.S. didn't directly hang him, the fact that we support this quasi-regime in Baghdad to begin with - and the fact that we could have stopped it in the face of world opposition, or at least delayed until the Iraqis got themselves well organized to carry it out in a dignified matter as possible - kind of puts us in the same boat with these dysfunctional "allies" of our

My solution as a punishment for Saddam? They should have put him in a jail the size of the bunker he was hiding in when he was caught.

With an intercom playing audio recordings from a motivational speaker for good measure. :-D

(Or maybe some Iron Butterfly, which is sort of how they got Noriega.)